Gian 🇾🇪

"At Manchester United we strive for perfection and if we fail we might just have to settle for excellence" 🔴⚪️⚫️

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Timeless.

⏩ Five years on, Bruno is still scoring hat-tricks in our first home game of a @PremierLeague season...

[Gian 🇾🇪 @GianTheRed]

💣💣💣

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester United closing in on deal to sign Carlos Baleba from Brighton & Hove Albion. #MUFC offer for 22yo Cameroon midfielder ~£60+5m; below #BHAFC valuation but amicable talks continue as all parties work to reach agreement @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/WmP1bD2JuT

[Gian 🇾🇪 @GianTheRed]

@WengerAfc49 Still no respect?

[Welling hammer @HammerWelling]

What Var and sky don't show u !!!

[Gian 🇾🇪 @GianTheRed]

Games gone

[EPL Bible @EPLBible]

The amount of clips I’ve seen of Arsenal doing way worse from corners is crazy. 🤣

[EPL Bible @EPLBible]

Peter Schmeichel talking sense. 🗣️

[Mike Keegan @MikeKeegan_DM]

The only thing clear and obvious is that VAR has killed football.

[Gian 🇾🇪 @GianTheRed]

@__scottsaunders @markgoldbridge @WengerAfc49

[UF @UtdFaithfuls]

Still waiting for someone to explain how this is not a penalty.

Unbelievable.

[Manchester United Forever @UtdForever7]

🚨Stuart Attwell should NEVER referee a Manchester United game again.

He’s already cost us 4 points this season:

•Jan 7 vs Burnley — the Premier League’s Key Match Incidents (KMI) Panel ruled he shouldn’t have disallowed Lisandro Martinez’s goal.

•Last night — he ignores a clear penalty on Amad, then minutes later gives almost the same call against Maguire, handing him a RED.

Absolute joke. #MUFC

[LolaElise @LoEl81]

You either give both the Amad and Evanilson penalty or neither.

If you give both, United are 2 up and Bournemouth’s 1st goal doesn’t happen.

If you give neither, United win and Maguire doesn’t get sent off.

Either way, United win.
But to ignore one and give the other, to completely favour one team over the other is utterly unacceptable at this level.

We know we won’t get any apology.
We know the media will instantly forget it.
Stuart Atwell was a disgrace tonight, and will face no consequences whatsoever.

#MUFC #BOUMUN

[Gian 🇾🇪 @GianTheRed]

Game’s gone

[UF @UtdFaithfuls]

Clear push on Amad, ref doesn't give a penalty, and Bournemouth equalizes.

Again, Man Utd robbed! 😀😀😀

[Gian 🇾🇪 @GianTheRed]

Schooled by a 35yo we considered a decent squad player in his prime. How standards have fallen.

[Gian 🇾🇪 @GianTheRed]

Time to finish what we started

[george @StokeyyG2]

Goldbridge was live when Amorim was finally sacked from the United job 🤣🤣🤣

[Suhail Chowdhary @SuhailChowdhary]

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, it was never meant to end the way it did. One more time!

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Manchester United used to be synonymous with leadership. In the dug-out, on the pitch, in the boardroom. Sir Matt Busby, Sir Alex Ferguson, Bryan Robson, Roy Keane, David Gill and many others, revered, even feared, authority figures, rated, adored, never ignored. Leaders who thought about the team and the club and fought for them.

Football (society?) has fewer real leaders generally currently. At United, this great club changed the moment the Glazers arrived in 2005. United gradually came more about what could be taken out (£) rather than put in (commitment). The leadership principle was eroded, and that accelerated when Ferguson and Gill stood down in 2013. United lost expertise, experience and wisdom. They lost leaders.

David Moyes and others tried but the culture had changed under the Glazers. They didn’t know enough, didn’t appoint well enough. They spent money - fans’ money - on the football side but not judiciously enough. They seemed more focused on the business side. The brand played on. The tills were alive with the sound of revenue, the distant Glazers were happy.

But the football drifted. The squad cried out for more players with the right character, and proper investment in training ground and stadium. The Old Trafford leaky roof summed up the lack of attention – and a lack of love and leadership.

New co-owners Ineos promised better. They promised strong leadership. They have delivered some good things, investment in the training ground, but the team continue to slide. How many United players would get into Arsenal’s XI? Arsenal showed leadership and judgement in appointing Mikel Arteta, and backing him because they could see his leadership qualities. Arteta has authority as well as his obvious coaching strengths.

United keep appointing managers and they don’t last. Ruben Amorim – an Ineos appointment - was Manchester United’s fourth manager in their four most recent trips to Elland Road on Sunday following Glazer appointees Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 2021, Ralf Rangnick 2022 and Erik ten Hag 2023. Pay as you churn. How much will Amorim get in his pay-off? Millions. For failure. In a period when Ineos culled good staff – people who care about the club - to save a few quid. Poor leadership. And where was the judgement and leadership in recruiting a head coach committed to wing-backs? United are about wingers.

Amorim deserved to depart for his stubborn commitment to a formation and philosophy that didn’t suit United’s squad or their DNA. Good managers adapt. Good managers also don’t talk like Amorim did in too many press conferences. Nice guy, but naïve, a headline waiting to happen, rarely positive.

“Maybe the worst team in the history of Manchester United” – not great for players' morale? “I came here to be the manager of Manchester United not the head coach” – his job title from the word go was head coach. “That’s going to finish in 18 months and then everyone is going to move on” – basically predicting his departure. No wonder Jason Wilcox, Omar Berrada and Ineos had had enough. At least they’ve showed leadership in taking action. At least they’ve appointed a leader in Darren Fletcher to take the team for the trip to Burnley.

Amorim never felt like a leader. A Manchester United head coach should sound the part – defiant, always positive about his players – and carry some aura. Also be appreciative of the great privilege of leading this great club. Look at United’s remarkable and patient travelling support. Total commitment to the cause. The biggest club in the country deserves to be properly led.

And so to the pitch. Where are the leaders? Bruno Fernandes is captain, United’s best player, but not a natural leader. Moans too much on the pitch (but an admirable ambassador for the club off the pitch). Harry Maguire’s a good leader but not certain of his place (or pace). Bryan Mbeumo in a quiet way. Casemiro’s ageing. Too few leaders. Under Ferguson, there would be 5-6 you could give the armband to. Where are the standard-setters now?

Any complaints about the criticism of pundits Gary Neville, Paul Scholes and Keane should be dismissed. Neville, Scholes and Keane represent the standards that United players should aspire to. The levels of commitment. All of them responsibility-takers, winners, and, in different ways, leaders.

Manchester United need to recruit more leaders and for those already at the club, from dressing-room to board-room, to show greater leadership. Amorim was a symptom of the malaise as well as a cause. #MUFC

[Mal @UtdMaI]

Ruben Amorim sacked, not because Manchester United couldn’t finish in the top four. Not because the players downed their tools and not because there’s no progress in the team.

United sacked him because he called them out, he needed help.

The next manager/coach has my full support too. I’ll defend him until he’s sacked or gone.

[utdreport @utdreport]

Dan Ashworth was ousted by INEOS after refusing to back the appointment of Ruben Amorim, believing his style was not right for #mufc [@alex_crook]